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131590P.pdf 08/07/2015 United States v. Wendell Brown
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-1590
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Bye, Smith and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. On remand from the Supreme Court for
reconsideration in light of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551
(2015). For the court's earlier opinion in the case, see United States v.
Brown, 734 F.3d 824 (8th Cir. 2013). Under Johnson, defendant's conviction
for possession of a short-barreled shotgun is not a violent felony for
purposes of sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act; without this
conviction, defendant only had two qualifying convictions, and it was
error to sentence him under the Act; remanded for resentencing.
131590P.pdf 10/30/2013 United States v. Wendell Brown
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-1590
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Bye and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Possession of a short-barreled shotgun
present a serious potential risk of physical injury to others and is
similar, in kind as well as degree of risk posed, to the offenses listed
in 18 U.S.C. Sec. 924(e)(2)(B), and the district properly ruled
defendant's prior conviction for possession of such a weapon is an
ACCA-qualifying felony; constitutional challenge to the residual clause of
18 U.S.C. Sec. 924(e)(2)(B) rejected.